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17.
What will you do differently in 2010?
“Take more companies public.” – Richard Kramlich, General Partner/Co-Founder, NEA “We will find new mistakes to make that we
“It's the global economy, stupid. Focus on 2010 will be Brazil's Skype have not made before; but all in all things
investments in the USA targeting customers in the moment.” - Simon Olson, Partner, look pretty strong and the team is
ROW (rest of the world).” – Trevor Loy, General Draper Fisher Jurvetson, FIR optimistic.” - Bob More, General Partner,
Partner, Flywheel Ventures Capital Brazil Frazier Healthcare Ventures
“The IPO market for VC backed companies will finally reopen in the US "2010 will be another difficult year for the US
and several IPOs will reach $1 billion market capitalizations or more.” - venture capital industry as the consolidation of our
Pascal Levensohn, Founder and Managing Partner, Levensohn Venture industry continues and very bad 10yr return numbers
Partners are released. The silver lining: it will be a great year
“In 2010 we are going to Carpe to make a few excellent investments." - Bob Pavey,
We will look for valuations to come Per Diem - Sieze the day to make Morgenthaler Ventures
into equilibrium and do more money for our LPs.” - Venky
transactions at that time.” – Jim “Corporate venturing & Relentlessly & w/ seemingly
Ganesan, Managing Director,
Hale, Founding Partner, FTV Capital job creation funds.” - undue precision reverse
Globespan Capital Partners
Thomas O. Gephart, engineer the early exit to
“500K to 1M as early as possible in great teams = early stage investing.” Managing Partner, drive w/ great focus what
- Steve Fredrick, General Partner, Grotech Ventures Ventana Capital founders do now to grow
“For 2010, we plan to broaden our geographic “We will do more investment under better environment their cos.” - Becca Braun,
focus to include investments in Europe.” - John President, JumpStart
for new deals.” - Masatoshi Ueno, CEO/Technology,
Huntz, Executive Director, Arcapita Ventures Ventures
Yasuda Enterprise Development America Inc.
Since Sep08 we have focused on firms that can reach “We will raise our next fund and continue to invest in
breakeven on this round. In 2010 our willingness to take consumer-facing Internet companies like Twitter and Zynga.” -
finance risk will likely return.” - Bronson Lingamfelter, Norman Fogelsong, General Partner, Institutional Venture
Associate, Rose Tech Ventures Partners